A note on groups with a modularity condition on infinite subsets. (Q891898)

The authors are interested in results of the following type: the group \(G\) is centre-by-finite if it has property (A) and satisfies that every infinite set of cyclic subgroups contains two different elements \(H\) and \(K\) having property (B). The classical result by B. H. Neumann from 1976 asserts this if (A) is empty and (B) is \([H,K]=1\). In a theorem by \textit{M. Curzio, J. Lennox, A. Rhemtulla} and \textit{J. Wiegold} [J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 48, No. 3, 397-401 (1990; Zbl 0705.20030)] (A) is that \(G\) is finitely generated soluble and (B) is \(HK=KH\), and the authors prove the desired result under the same assumption (A) when (B) is that \(H\) and \(K\) are modular subgroups of \(\langle H,K\rangle\). In addition they show that if \(G\) is just finitely generated and (B) is that the subgroup lattice of \(\langle H,K\rangle\) is modular, then \(G/Z(G)\) is periodic.